Computing the age structure using harmonized data

INTERNATIONAL
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Hi everyone,

I’m interested in computing the age structure by age and sex (and year) at the geo1 and geo2 levels (when possible) using harmonized data. Then, I would like to use that data to compute demographic indicators that will be plotted onto the (harmonized) shapefile. Ideally, I’ll make all this for any country in the IPUMS International collection. Do you find this doable in R?

Thank you,

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Hi Emanuel,

This definitely sounds doable in R. Once you’ve computed the age structure by geography and your demographic indicators, you can merge this data onto the shapefiles provided through IPUMS International using the COUNTRY, GEOLEV1, and GEOLEV2 codes as linking keys. The .zip file you download and extract includes a .shp shapefile that you can merge with these indicators in your dataframe using the sf package (see this StackExchange post for an example of how to do this).